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  2. Descent of the Ganges (Mahabalipuram) - Wikipedia

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    Show map of Tamil Nadu Show map of India Show all. Descent of the Ganges, known locally as Arjuna's Penance, [1][2] is a monument at Mamallapuram, on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal, in the Chengalpattu district of the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Measuring 96 by 43 feet (29 m × 13 m), it is a giant open-air rock relief carved on two ...

  3. Santo (art) - Wikipedia

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    The tradition of wooden santo carving was preserved as a folk art in Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado, where isolated villages remain relatively secluded to this day. Of particular note is the village of Cordova, New Mexico which has produced several well-known santeros ; one was George López , who was awarded the National Heritage ...

  4. Balinese art - Wikipedia

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    Balinese stone carvings, Ubud. Balinese art is an art of Hindu-Javanese origin that grew from the work of artisans of the Majapahit Kingdom, with their expansion to Bali in the late 14th century. From the sixteenth until the twentieth centuries, the village of Kamasan, Klungkung (East Bali), was the centre of classical Balinese art.

  5. Badami cave temples - Wikipedia

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    In another compartment a bas-relief 2.5 feet (0.76 m) in diameter has carvings of a male and female; the male is Yaksha carrying a sword and the female is Apsara with a flying veil. The succeeding panel has carvings of two small figures and the panel at the end is carved with lotuses. [29]

  6. Assyrian sculpture - Wikipedia

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    "Winged genie", Nimrud c. 870 BC, with inscription running across his midriff. Part of the Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal, c. 645–635 BC. Assyrian sculpture is the sculpture of the ancient Assyrian states, especially the Neo-Assyrian Empire of 911 to 612 BC, which was centered around the city of Assur in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) which at its height, ruled over all of Mesopotamia, the Levant ...

  7. Relief carving - Wikipedia

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    A low relief carving of a Viking ship Carving tools and a mallet. In wood carving relief carving is a type in which figures or patterns are carved in a flat panel of wood; the same term is also used for carving in stone, ivory carving and various other materials. The figures project only slightly from the background rather than standing freely.

  8. Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal - Wikipedia

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    The carvings come from late in the period of some 250 years over which Assyrian palace reliefs were made, and show the style at its most developed and finest, [6] before decline set in. Ashurbanipal was the last great Assyrian king, and after his reign ended the Neo-Assyrian Empire descended into a period of poorly-recorded civil war between ...

  9. Bison Licking Insect Bite - Wikipedia

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    Bison Licking Insect Bite is a prehistoric carving from the Upper Paleolithic, found at Abri de la Madeleine near Tursac in Dordogne, France, the type-site of the Magdalenian culture, which produced many fine small carvings in antler or bone. Created sometime between 20,000 and 12,000 BP (15,000 BP according to the museum), it was formerly in ...

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